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The Internal Revenue Service issued a special alert for several groups of federal benefit recipients, including Railroad Retirement recipients, to act by this Wednesday, April 22, if they did not file a tax return in 2018 or 2019 and have dependents, so they can quickly receive the full amount of their Economic Impact Payment. In
Read moreIn a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia the Transportation Trades Department AFL-CIO (TTD) of which TCU is a member, is demanding immediate protection measures be put in place for frontline transportation workers. The letter includes: Dear Secretaries Chao and Scalia: It has now
Read moreOn March 13, 2020, noting the President’s declaration of a national emergency related to COVID-19 and the World Health Organization’s characterization of COVID-19 as pandemic, Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Administrator Ronald L. Batory activated an emergency relief docket (ERD) (Docket No. FRA-2020-0002). Activation of an ERD enables FRA to utilize its emergency waiver procedures to
Read moreThe families of MTA employees who die from coronavirus will be eligible for $500,000 in death benefits from the agency, transit officials recently announced. MTA chairman Pat Foye said “What our front-line workers have done during this pandemic is nothing short of heroic and we believe this agreement is another crucial step in recognizing their
Read more43,000 workers of the Service Trades Council Union (STCU), which includes TCU Local Lodge 1908, reached a deal with Walt Disney World on temporary furloughs that will allow them to keep their benefits. Unfortunately, they now have the Florida unemployment system to face. “The Florida unemployment system is fundamentally broken. The system is rigged to
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